Forum: Storage & Hardrives
July 20th 08, 02:45 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,789
help to access external HD from PC and Mac
Perhaps you're being misled by the fact that in its infinite wisdom
Microsoft decided that WinXP (and its predecessor Win2K) should not be
able to *create* FAT32 partitions larger than 32...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
July 19th 08, 08:53 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,789
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
June 1st 08, 01:15 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 1
Views: 417
SSD and Caching
Are there knock on effects of zero/low need for caching;
- more memory available to applications
Not so, application steal memory pages from cache if they need them.
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Maxim Shatskih,...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
May 28th 08, 01:00 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 3
Views: 517
DMA issue while writing data to hard disk
SATA controller takes longer than anticipated and due to this, data
buffers overflow.
This is a classic producer/consumer thing.
If you have slow consumer (SATA) and fixed rate of the producer...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 12th 08, 06:24 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 5
Views: 786
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
April 12th 08, 06:13 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,269
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
Doesnt alter that fact that plenty havent had a hard drive failure and have
had
other stuff fail.
Fans are also unreliable.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 12th 08, 06:13 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,777
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
Doesnt alter that fact that plenty havent had a hard drive failure and have
had
other stuff fail.
Fans are also unreliable.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 11th 08, 04:21 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,777
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
I run the Adaptec SCSI card
(160MB/s, the one with Windows driver "adpu160m")
That narrows it down quite a bit, doesn't it.
Almost as good as naming the model number.
Adaptec...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
April 11th 08, 04:21 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,269
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
I run the Adaptec SCSI card
(160MB/s, the one with Windows driver "adpu160m")
That narrows it down quite a bit, doesn't it.
Almost as good as naming the model number.
Adaptec...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
April 10th 08, 08:25 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,269
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
I run the Adaptec SCSI card (160MB/s, the one with Windows driver
"adpu160m") for 8 years or so. No issues.
The problem with Adaptec is not that all their products are bad.
Thanks. For...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 10th 08, 08:25 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,777
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
I run the Adaptec SCSI card (160MB/s, the one with Windows driver
"adpu160m") for 8 years or so. No issues.
The problem with Adaptec is not that all their products are bad.
Thanks. For...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
April 10th 08, 10:22 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,269
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
I can't speak for their RAID cards, but the SCSI card in my old desktop
was flaky from day one. After numerous tech support equiries, driver &
firmware updates, it still bluescreens my...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 10th 08, 10:22 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,777
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
I can't speak for their RAID cards, but the SCSI card in my old desktop
was flaky from day one. After numerous tech support equiries, driver &
firmware updates, it still bluescreens my...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 9th 08, 09:44 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,777
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
With RAID-1 (mirroring) you still should do regular backups. RAID-1
only protects against failure of a HD, and supplies no protection
against failures of any other piece of hardware, or...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
April 9th 08, 09:44 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,269
Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
With RAID-1 (mirroring) you still should do regular backups. RAID-1
only protects against failure of a HD, and supplies no protection
against failures of any other piece of hardware, or...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 13th 08, 08:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 9
Views: 446
RAID5 Volume recovery
the windows mirroring is pretty good. Veritas seems nearly indestructible,
even when it come to operator error.
Windows Dynamic Disk is the licensed Veritas's VxVM aka Storage...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
March 13th 08, 08:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 9
Views: 577
RAID5 Volume recovery
the windows mirroring is pretty good. Veritas seems nearly indestructible,
even when it come to operator error.
Windows Dynamic Disk is the licensed Veritas's VxVM aka Storage...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 13th 08, 09:46 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 9
Views: 446
RAID5 Volume recovery
Very sad story.
For me, this is a typical horror stories of "never trust onboard RAIDs or
separate RAID boxes unless by VERY serious vendors".
For instance, for me, Microsoft/Veritas and...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
March 13th 08, 09:46 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 9
Views: 577
RAID5 Volume recovery
Very sad story.
For me, this is a typical horror stories of "never trust onboard RAIDs or
separate RAID boxes unless by VERY serious vendors".
For instance, for me, Microsoft/Veritas and...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
February 7th 08, 08:34 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 2
Views: 910
external drive w bultin SFTP
Why you need SFTP in the network which is physically under your control?
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
http://www.storagecraft.com
"Newser"...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
January 24th 08, 07:29 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 11
Views: 765
Linux LVM software raid, and SAN question.
Note that without using enterprise-level software (read: $$$) which
would allow you to integrate the snapshot into the database, you'll
need to manually coordinate flushing and freezing the...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
January 24th 08, 03:53 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 4
Views: 502
Can I flush the disk cache?
does disabling write cache under device properties for the disk under
windows help at all?
This will not disable the cache completely, especially for reads.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
January 24th 08, 03:52 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 4
Views: 502
Can I flush the disk cache?
Or maybe unmount/remount the usb drive?
Yes.
You need not flush but purge, and cache purges in Windows is only done by
remount.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
January 20th 08, 08:07 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 40
Views: 2,175
Utility to write huge files instantly???
I'm testing it on an XP system. I am running it from within the VB6
environment. Could that make a difference?
No.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
January 20th 08, 08:05 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,036
Network Storage Help
The advantages of a SAN relate to pure performance and its ability
Why use SAN if you have no cluster-capable server software? put the same disk
drives inside the usual server and install the...
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